Is it finally time for the UK stock market to shine?
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4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With American exceptionalism swiftly being replaced with American erraticism, the UK is attracting the eye of international investors.
They see the FTSE - and its European counterparts - as a relative bastion of sanity and somewhere that a rules-based trading system can ride out the storm away from a US government seemingly intent on tearing up the rulebook and throwing the pieces in the air to see where they land.
But this isn't the first occasion that investors have heard the siren call of a revived UK stockmarket, only to have their hopes dashed on the rocks, so will it be different this time?
On this week's podcast, Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert discuss whether UK shares will be a tariff winner - and where else investors can turn to make a profit.
Plus, how much should you have in savings at different ages and are NS&I's new bonds or cash Isa table-topping rates from savings apps a way to get there.
And finally, a question from a reader who asks what they can do about a neighbour who borrowed their lawnmover and broke it... and what our consumer rights lawyer's answer reveals about Georgie.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money Podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Georgie Frost and joining me today is Simon Lambert. |
| 0:09.0 | And coming up, the UK stock market looks cheaper than ever. |
| 0:13.0 | Is it finally time to buy British? |
| 0:16.0 | We reveal exactly how much money you should have in your savings, based on your age. |
| 0:20.0 | NS&I launches new fixed savings bonds, but how do the rates compare? exactly how much money you should have in your savings based on your age. |
| 0:24.9 | NS&I launches new fixed savings bonds, but how do the rates compare? |
| 0:31.4 | Savings apps are incredibly popular, but how safe is your cash, and my neighbour broke my lawnmower. |
| 0:33.2 | Can I make him pay for the repair? |
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| 1:13.8 | But first, the US stock market has reigned supreme for, well, some time now, hitting anyone |
| 1:19.5 | who favoured British funds and shares in recent years. The government is desperate to get us to buy |
| 1:24.2 | British. We've been asking for years if this is finally the time that we do so. |
| 1:29.4 | But could Trump's tariff turmoil |
| 1:31.2 | mean that this really genuinely is the year to buy British? |
| 1:36.2 | Well, that's the question that Fidelity's Andrew Oxade |
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